Un/True Myth

I think all of the six myths in contemporary media can be both true and untrue. For the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" myth, one person must overcome a personal challenge, which leads to all of the people around them overcoming as well. A lot of times this is the case. There are many stories of single parents overcoming the problem of raising a family along, thus the entire family succeeds. There are tons of other examples of this too. But in most stories, everyone usually does not overcome. There is often one or more people who still fail in their struggles, despite the influence of the first person. Since I first started observing this myth, I have noticed that the stories usually do not match the qualifications of the myth exactly, but they do have the same overall principles of the myth.